The article, in which she wrote of her fascination
with Terre'blanche: ‘Right now I've got to remind
myself to breathe ... I'm impaled on the blue flames of
his blowtorch eyes’ sounded the death knoll for Jani.
Pretty soon the media was awash with allegations
of an affair.
In 1992, Allan sued Channel
4, the British broadcaster, for libel, claiming that in
the documentary The Leader, His Driver and His Driver’s
Wife she was presented as a ‘woman of easy virtue’
But she was dealt a devastating blow when
her friend and former flatmate, Sunday Times astrologer
Linda Shaw testified against her.
Shaw testified in court that Allan had told her that she
was in love with Terre'Blanche and wanted to marry him.
She admitted that she knew about the relationship early
on and that Allan had described Terre'Blanche as a "great
lay, but a little heavy".
Shaw further testified that she had once peeped through
a keyhole and saw the AWB leader and Jani in a compromising
position on the floor.
The court ruled in favour of Channel 4 and,
unable to pay the broadcaster’s estimated £300
000 costs - she has still not paid them - exiled from South
Africa, and rejected by Fleet Street, she was forced to
sleep on a friend's floor in Hampstead; and by the late
90s she had disappeared into obscurity.
But, with the murder of ET, Jani, who has
maintained that she did not have an affair with Die Wit
Gevaar, is suddenly big news again.
A reporter tracked her down to the little
town of Lambertsville where she works as a restaurant hostess.
She lives in a tiny flat behind the restaurant and is apparently
so broke that she can’t even afford a much-needed
dentist.
As fate would have it, Jani is mid-way through
writing her biography, which contains two chapters about
ET, and she views his passing as a golden opportunity to
revive her career and restore her reputation.
Allan says her publisher is convinced it
will become a blockbusting movie.
That’s a good reason for breaking her long silence
wot?
Kader Khan
